A lane-change maneuver on a congested highway could be severely disruptive or even infeasible without the cooperation of neighboring cars. However, cooperation with other vehicles does not guarantee that the performed maneuver will not have a negative impact on traffic flow unless it is explicitly considered in the cooperative controller design. In this letter, we present a socially compliant framework for cooperative lane-change maneuvers for an arbitrary number of CAVs on highways that aims to interrupt traffic flow as minimally as possible. Moreover, we explicitly impose feasibility constraints in the optimization formulation by using reachability set theory, leading to a unified design that removes the need for an iterative procedure used in prior work. We quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of our framework and compare it against previously offered approaches in terms of maneuver time and incurred throughput disruption.

Kaitlyn Murphy, Wenjie Ge & Chris Buchbinder (Capital Group) Ladies and gentlemen, start your batteries. Sure, we've been hearing about the advent of the electric car for a long time. But evidence is mounting that it has already arrived -- ahead of schedule. Consider this: General Motors announced in January that it will stop manufacturing gas- and diesel-powered cars by 2035. This after Volkswagen, Europe's largest automaker, disclosed plans to invest $86 billion to develop electric vehicles, digital factories and self-driving cars over the next five years.

By 2030, a tenth of vehicles worldwide will be self-driving, and the market volume of fully automated cars getting into gear by this time is expected to be worth $13.7bn, according to the latest DossierPlus report from Statista. The analyst's study said that after billions of miles of tests in simulations or on public roads, self-driving cars are beginning to leave the test tracks. Autonomous driving has come a long way since Waymo (previously named the Google Self-Driving Car Project) started testing self-driving cars. The report noted that digital taxi firm Uber has invested more than $1bn over three years on self-driving cars. Statista also observed that when General Motors subsidiary Cruise received US$3.4bn in funding in 2018, the overall automotive startup funding had increased ten-fold over the past five years, reaching a record-breaking $US 27.5bn in 2018.

The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being felt across a range of technologies disrupting the traditional methods of doing things and pointing the way to futuristic advances in technology. Fadi Kanafani, Senior Director Middle East, NetApp, highlights the current status of AI in the automotive industry and considers a future where cars will connect to each other, to our homes and to infrastructure. The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being seen across industries and geographies. AI is now a key to success for organisations and is set to be a significant contributor towards global economic growth by 2030. According to a study by McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), on average, the global gross domestic product (GDP) could increase by 1.2 percentage points per year, which would correspond to a total'value added' of US$ 13 trillion.

This is a board created for artificial intelligence projects, so as well as treating the new board to four programmable real-time units, the Foundation has also included four embedded vision-engines, a TI C66x digital signal processor, and has pre-installed machine learning tools.

Cars overwhelmingly dominate the conversation from everything you might expect (alternative energy sources, new models of owning vs. leasing) to more powerful software tied to things like blockchain and telematics. The top five topics in our media landscape all focus of developments within the automobile industry: Alternative Energy Cars (11% of all discussion), Self-driving Cars (11%), electric car startup Faraday Future (8.2%), Blockchain & Telematics (8%), and Car Ownership (which primary examines how ride sharing will change traditional ownership models - 7.8%). There is also a lot of innovation happening in air travel at the moment. The sector as we know it is slated to go largely electric with test flights already taking place. Want to get from London to New York in just over three hours?

It's coming quickly down the road: a world where we can get in a car anytime we want to but don't own one. Where accidents are drastically reduced, and we don't have to worry about dangerous drivers on the road. Where we can join conference calls or draft a report on our morning commute. Cars are changing more quickly and drastically now than at any other point in their history. And it's no wonder: from 2014 to 2017, start-ups, automakers and other stakeholders invested an estimated $80 billion into autonomous vehicle (AV) technology.

With federal regulators poised to repeal net neutrality rules this week, your internet service provider would be allowed to speed up delivery of some online content to your home or phone. Whether those fast lanes are coming, and what they ultimately deliver for Americans, is unclear. The concept, known as paid prioritization, involves a telecommunications company charging an additional fee to transport a video stream or other content at a higher speed through its network. The fee would most likely come from deals struck with websites such as Netflix willing to pay for a competitive advantage over an online rival. Or the fee could be charged to a company providing services that require reliably fast connections, such as self-driving vehicles or remote health monitoring of people with serious illnesses.

A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday unanimously gave the green light to a bill aimed at speeding the use of self-driving cars without human controls, a measure that also bars states from imposing regulatory road blocks. The bill still must clear a Senate vote, but it appears on track to passage. This should rev up profits for automakers, technology companies and ride service providers, hastening the day when their robot cars can carry passengers on the same U.S. roads as cars driven by people. Automakers would be able to win exemptions from safety rules that require human controls. States could set rules on registration, licensing, liability, insurance and safety inspections, but not performance standards.

When picturing the autonomous delivery services of the near-future, you'll likely imagine drones buzzing overhead with packages in tow. But some ground-based robots are making a push into this area too, like the six-wheeled delivery droid recently dispatched to a customer's home with a food order onboard.